Tauragė Revolt

Members of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union wanted to remove President Antanas Smetona from power.

[2] The revolt was the third attempt in less than a year to overthrow the government of President Antanas Smetona and Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras that was installed by the military coup d'état of December 1926.

[3] They collected weapons and printed proclamations in Tilsit, Germany, that claimed that the revolt would receive support from three regiments of the Lithuanian Army.

In their book XX amžiaus slaptieji archyvai (Secret Archives of the 20th Century) Gražina Sviderskytė and Arvydas Anušauskas argued that the revolt was in large part organized by the Security Police to discredit the opposition.

[7] Ieva Šaulinskienė, a telegrapher, was forced to work by the insurgents who lacked specialists, but she still sent a telegram to another city saying: "Revolt in Tauragė.

[9] The revolt spread to neighboring villages of Pagramantis, Sartininkai [lt], Žygaičiai and the rebels numbered some 200 men.

[9] The soldiers shot and killed Povilas Mikulskis [lt], leader of the revolt and former member of the Seimas, when they tried to arrest him on 10 September.

[5] A group of 30–40 men, commanded by Jeronimas Plečkaitis, gathered near Balbieriškis and planned to attack military barracks hoping that the soldiers would join them.

[9] Ferdinandas Saltonas was arrested attempting to cross the Latvia–Lithuania border, but was not prosecuted raising suspicions that the money he stole from the bank was meant as a compensation from the Security Police for his services in spying on the rebels.